[Philanthropite]

Originally Posted by Trasadkel1

This is why BB is going down the pan.i think people lose all sense of perspective when watching it nowadays. I am sure it took you a long time to write this but. I have to say I totally disagree with it. This is not the real world we are watching. It is a heavily edited entertainment show with tasks and set up situations that are designed to cause conflict. We only get to see snippets that they want to show us and this is then condensed down into 45 minutes out of the 24 hours.

Now we have no live feed we can only base our assumptions on what the editors select to show us. This is my gripe with BB now as it is turning more into a scripted reality show rather than the game it should be. Housemates are given far too much input and tasks are designed to cause conflict. They always have to have their villains and their victim.

The public find their victim and then support them no matter what. In this case it is Gary. He can do no wrong despite the fact that, in the back of our minds, we know from evicted housemates etc that is not the case. Then his behaviour is excused because he is old, brain damaged etc etc. I think Mr Busey himself would be quite disappointed to find that he is being likened to some frail, senile old fool who needs a carer to look after him. I credit him with far more intelligence than that and happen to think he is very aware of what he is doing. It is quite obvious he speaks and behaves differently in the diary room to when he is around the other housemates.

For me I will be voting my winner based on who has entertained me the most in the house and no other reason.

It's not that he can do no wrong, it's that he has factually done no wrong by what we have witnessed. Is he angelic? No, but pretty damn close to be honest, especially considering the **** he's put up with in there. I would've been in a straight jacket by the end of it. I'm not saying he was right in every single case within the house, but he's not confrontational by nature. They always instigate the problem and bring the multitude of arguments to him not visa versa. Being a problem and causing a problem are two very different things.

I think Gary is being his kind self. Only once did I notice Gary on purpose use his hard of hearing card to great advantage. Whilst Stephanie was talking really loudly at him he kept asking if she could speak louder. I can only hope he did it on purpose because it still wouldn't come close to the nastiness they have spat his way.

I think what I hate the most is that Gary took what they were saying most of the time at face value and genuinely appreciated the nastiness they threw his way. He has finally noticed that they have so much animosity that he can no longer pass it off as a mere coincidence when it is coming at him so often.

They demonstrate outright pack behaviour and have fooled themselves into thinking that the majority opinion is right. James is constantly saying something along the lines of "we can't all be wrong can we Gary" and the simple answer is yes, you can all be wrong. The majority of Germany went along with Hitlers Nazi regime, were they all right too? Of course not, they also went along with this pack mentality because it was beneficial to their way of living due to the terrible economy.

I have not lost all sense of perspective, I went in with an open mind about everyone and the only decent people left in there are Gary, Audley and Lauren in that order. I include Lauren because funnily enough I think getting drunk caused a rift within her between herself and the pack and now she can see the other side more clearly because of it. Well she may well prove me wrong before the series ends but from what I've seen of her more recently has been pleasing to watch. Particularly when Ricci assumed that she should side with him. At the late mid section of the series I had some hope for James believe it or not, because he was being much kinder to Gary and was trying to help him out more. I still wonder whether that was JUST because Big Brother told him to or whether he genuinely wanted to. I gave him the benefit of the doubt there and thought hey, maybe he is trying to be better about it all. Then we get to the recent situation where he's become a complete ****** again which to me denotes his true person.